So I was happily looking around the character database for an OC to review when I stumbled across this little beauty: http://mlpforums.com/page/roleplay-characters/_/cliff-racer-r5930.

It turns out that the owner of the OC (Cliff_Racer_562) is not spending a lot of time on the forums due to the depression of his brothers death (it's in his status comment), but it looks like he's popping in and out to probably check for notifications and edit his OC which I will be reviewing today.

Anyway, let's get on with it shall we.

Now this OC who's name is Cliff Racer (named after the owner) is a rather generic looking stallion. With the conclusion of using "normal" colors, I think it stands out well in the crowd of jet black coated, crimson red maned, demonic sons and daughters of Princess Luna and Celestia, type of characters. The brown is perfect without looking feces colored and the ginger mane is a rare sight to see.

The mane style is unique in it's own way, and by that I mean it doesn't use hair styles from everyponies favorite anime shows such as Dragonball Z. I like the way his hair is really long and shaggy with the follow up of the tail being messy too, it's quite adorable and shows that this OC can be quite lazy, scruffy, and careless all at the same time.

The reason there's no cutie mark is beyond me, maybe the creator had no idea what his Ponies special talent could be.

The expression of the Ponies face is a normal happy smile. No dark frowning, no grudges, no psychotic smile like Pinkymena (whatever her name is) has, no scars, no nothing. Just a rather blank smile of innocence that says "I ain't like the rest of the freak show, I'm on the good OC side". The blue eyes have got to top off the cuteness, they're not demon red with a cats eye pupil, they're not glowing green with possession, but simply blue which was a good choice with the coat.

The angle of the OC is not that cheap side view you get with Ponies created in the Pony Creator on Deviantart, but goes for the diagonal third angle view. It shows the Ponies entire body along with both sides of his face and muzzle, it really shows the most of him.

There was no written personality for the OC, I'm not sure if Mr Racer came online to delete it or not. But judging by the look of it, I could suggest a personality trait for it myself, maybe even give the owner some ideas.

Like I said earlier, the messy, long, not styled mane could suggest that he's maybe a procrastinator who doesn't care for his looks and thinks that everypony looks the equal (which he could be right due to the base/template designs of G4 ponies). The smile on his face could suggest that he's cheerful, or maybe even a comical character. But judging by the look also, I think he could portray a bit of a vulgar attitude too.

These are my genuine ideas, but it's really up to the creator to decide. Maybe I've given him an outlook, I don't know.

I'm a bit iffy when it comes to backstorys of OC's, I always find them unoriginal and uninspired with an insane amount of cliches. But the maker of this OC didn't do anything for the backstory either, only replacing it with ellipses. Now I don't know what kind of occupation this Pony could have, what his history could be, but that something the creator needs to find out for himself (if he does, that is). Hopefully he will come online once again to change his OC for the better, or not.

Benefits

• Generic design
  
• 3rd Angle View
  
• Matching Colors
  
• Correct Color Tones
  
• Amazing Mane
  
• Hand drawn (or at least with the use of bases)
  

Flaws

• Lack of personality
  
• Lack of Backstory
  
• Blank Flank (He can't help it though)
  

Final Score

8.5/10 [Earns my seal of approval]

Final Comment

Cliff_Racer_562, I hope you get better and come back, we need more awesome OC's such as this one. Also, I send you my condolences to the loss of your brother.